Directorial team Cousins has released a sequel to their unauthorized (and NSFW) Skittles commercial, this time depicting the same couple going through labor. Unfortunately for the Skittle-cumming husband, the baby comes out a Reese's Piece. Someone is getting two-timed.
Can I confess something to you? I got legitimately depressed last September when I realized that Denise, my favorite member of P.S. 22, had graduated to 6th grade and would no longer be killing it with the choir. Another confession: I maybe started crying when she showed up in this Target commercial singing Adele's …
Obviously asking logical questions is pointless in this scenario, but I can't help myself: Why would a mermaid exclaim "I'm so wet"? Don't they spend their lives in the sea? And where do mermaids shop for their underwire bras? And are we actually supposed to feel confident giving our personal financial information…
Here's something to write your local congressperson about: American advertisers are pushing cats to the fringes of pop culture, starting with a slate of canine-normative Super Bowl commercials. Of the three — three! — major pet commercials, not one will feature a kitty, which might be cause for concern if you're a…
If you've spent hours fretting that there aren't enough feminist candy spokespeople, here's some good news for you: M&M's will unveil a new lady character in an exciting Super Bowl commercial. Her name is Ms. Brown, and she represents, you guessed it, the brown M&M! She will join the five other talking M&M…
I've got to hand it to MTV: for a network that makes plot points out of their television stars questioning whether or not it's cheating if they were blacked out during sex, their "Sex Is No Accident" campaign is pretty effective (if not a little icky). The spots are short and to the point.
Hipster rockabilly girls? Check. Getting tattooed in a fast food restaurant? Check. Fire breathing? Check. Guy djing with hamburgers instead of records while ballerinas dance around fireballs? Yep.
Frank The Fruitcake is Wal Mart's attempt at creating a "viral meme" they had surely hoped would be a hit with the kids. They really tried to make Frank internet-friendly: he's a crude, sweet-talkin' piece of bread who wants to get you under the mistletoe and who believes he's well liked by mankind. For Wal Mart,…
It seems this 1979 commercial starring Patrick Swayze (and wife Lisa Niemi?) was designed to scare and confuse future generations. Why is Swayze doing Dirty Dancing moves in the middle of a roller rink? How did the hipsters in the background lose the disaffected sneer? And why does the announcer call Pabst "good" at…
By now, we've all realized that it's the Europeans who get the very best television commercials. By best, I mean the most sex-filled, NSFW, would-never-pass-in-America kind of commercials. Given how common these racy commercials are abroad, this one from European Foot Locker shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.…
Oh, J.C. Penney, you need some help, don't you? First, with that ridiculous "Too Pretty for Homework" t-shirt and now with this insanely misguided commercial. It might—might—be excusable to use a bikini-clad Phoebe Cates (from 1982, wtf?!) to sell your men's dress shirts if it made ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. But it…
Not really. But that's the concept behind this Norwegian bank commercial. Our heroine wakes up confused and disheveled in a hotel room (who hasn't) and discovers a whopping diamond ring on her finger. That's when The Cloons strolls in, clearly smitten. We're supposed to believe she got so wasted she forgot that…
Oh, France, je t'aime: Cats at the workplace! Cats in space! Perhaps most importantly, cats in tiny hats!! Whatever this commercial is selling, I'm buying.
She may have moved out of Beverly Hills for an acting career in London's West End, but Brenda Walsh is now lending her talent as a thespian to a new series of Education Connection commercials. Watch Brenda play a bussiness woman, a chef, a nurse, a crime scene investigator, and ...a flapper? Oh, Brenda — where did…
Jamaican LGBT rights group J-FLAG produced this PSA starring former Miss World and Miss Jamaica pageant queen Christine Straw and her gay brother, Matthew, for television. But unfortunately, supposedly due to pressure by Christian groups on the island, the country's leading network rejected the ad for being "too…
Before she was a goofy nerd-turned-princess, Catwoman, or in The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway was just a girl playing a girl in a commercial, who happened to be in love with her neighbor. The boy reassured her that even though they were selling their house, it would "take time" and that they'd have "the whole…
Are you a beautiful, well-dressed woman living in the Memphis area? Are you fascinating? Do you wish to make this funny little man fascinated by you? Then you likely shop at Divine Rags — or need to start, pronto. (And if you actually make it to the shop, do report back.)
John Stamos is on an endorsement spree. First he unleashed the John Stamos Guide To Cuddling to the world, and now he's endorsing a new brand of Dannon yogurt. We think we know the ad company's thought process: Who's a good-looking celebrity who's also known for being Greek? How about that Jesse Katsopolis…
In 30 seconds this Tide commercial presents a troubling cocktail of gender stereotypes, and it's a bit hard to decipher. Are we supposed to relate to the uptight, creepy mom who wishes her daughter wore pink, or laugh at her for being neurotic and over-the-top girly? At worst, the ad plays on the fears we're…
Last we reported, Fabio had begun starring in a series of Old Spice commercials, claiming to be the "New Old Spice Guy." We were worried. Then on Monday, Fabio challenged the old Old Spice Guy to a duel, and Isaiah Mustafa accepted.
